Top of Page| Main English Speaker: | Pastor Louis Lee |
| Main Cantonese Speaker: | Rev. Peter Leong |
| Youth Speaker: | Pastor Kyle Shimazaki |
| Workshop Speakers: | Pastor Edward Cheng |
| Dr. Kent Eaton | |
| Rev. Peter Leong, Mrs. Katie Leong | |
| Pastor Kyle Shimazaki | |
| Children's Program: | Michael & Jeannie Stinton |
| Margaret Kuan, Tien Butts & Robin Kuehn | |
| Enming Kuan |
Brief Biographies of Our Speakers (in alphabetical order):
Pastor Eddie Cheng --- Pastor to Students, Contra Costa Gospel Church (CCGC) in Walnut Creek, CA
Eddie Cheng, a Southern California native, was born and raised in Temple City, CA, a small city in the San Gabriel Valley (Los Angeles County). He went to Temple City High School where he got involved in high school athletics, including cross country ("I don't know how I ever did that"), basketball, and volleyball. Outside of school, Eddie also became active in his church's youth group. During his high school days, when he wasn't at practice or at church, you could probably find him shooting pool with his buddies or else at a café somewhere drinking "boba nai cha."
His life took another step forward when he moved to the Bay Area in 1994 to attend UC Berkeley as an undergraduate student. At Cal, Eddie studied Genetics and was dead set on eventually becoming a pediatrician. Throughout his entire life up until that point he thought God had created him to become a great doctor helping young children. All this changed during his senior year in college when he felt God tugging at his heart to serve Him full time in ministry. After several months of praying about this and talking it over with lots of people, he finally committed himself to full time ministry that year, giving up any dreams of becoming a physician.
In 2000, Eddie enrolled at Western Seminary in San Jose to study full time. At this time, he was actively involved in youth ministry at the church he attended while in college. After two years at the seminary, Eddie left his college church for another church, Contra Costa Gospel Church (CCGC) in Walnut Creek, CA, where he serves now as Pastor to Students. He graduated from seminary in 2003 and now serves full time at CCGC.
Right after graduation from seminary, he married his girlfriend of four years, and is now happily married to Cindy. Together they love to eat, watch TV, and serve the Lord in the Youth Group. He also coaches high school volleyball, plays basketball on Sunday afternoons, and still enjoys the occasional "boba nai cha."
Dr. Kent Eaton --- Associate Dean and Professor of Pastoral Ministry, Bethel Seminary, San Diego
For the past eleven years Kent A. Eaton has served as Associate Dean and Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Bethel Seminary San Diego (a Bethel University seminary). During the previous thirteen years, Kent taught in a small theological college outside of Barcelona, Spain. Kent holds the ThM (Dallas) and PhD (Lampeter, Wales) degrees and has authored various journal articles and chapters, most of which deal with the history of cross-cultural ministry and particularly the story of Protestantism in Spain. This winter his book, Protestants in Spain, 1869-1936, "Shall the Papists Prevail!", will be published. At Bethel his forte is preparing students for ministry by helping them embrace their God-given gifts while identifying the potential area(s) of ministry in which their unique gifts, talents, and dreams could be put to use. In addition to serving at Bethel, he is active in his local church and serves on various local and national organizations that advocate for the needs of the homeless and disabled communities. His hobbies include gardening and cooking. Kent lives in San Diego with his wife, Vickie, a Registered Dietitian and Diabetes Educator who works in community health. They have three sons, two in college and the youngest in high school.
Enming Kuan has been attending New Life Christian Alliance Church in Whittier for about 25 years. She has been teaching Children’s Sunday School and VBS at New Life for the last 10 years.
Margaret Kuan, Tien Butts & Robin Kuehn ---
Margaret has been involved with AWANA clubs for 15 years at the First Baptist Church of San Diego and was involved in children’s Sunday School for 10 years at CEC. From 1996 to 2003 Margaret was responsible for the carnival program at CEC’s Vacation Bible School. Tien is Margaret’s daughter and Robin is Margaret’s niece. They will be assisting in the Preschool program.
Pastor Louis Lee --- General Director, Ministries for English Speaking Asians (MESA)
Louis Lee is presently serving as the General Director of MESA, Ministries for English Speaking Asians. Louis founded MESA in May of 1988. MESA promotes greater harmony among evangelical Asian Americans (EAA) by facilitating conferences and regional fellowship meetings among EAA leaders. After graduating from the University of Michigan (75) and Dallas Theological Seminary (79), he pastored in northern California for 21 years and also served as the National Asian Coordinator with Promise Keepers from July of 1996 until October of 1998. Louis has preached for over 135 different church worship services/retreats/conferences in the US and Canada since 1978.
Louis lives in northern California with his wife, Eileen. Their older son, Matthew, graduated from UC Davis in 2004 and is now ministering full time with IVCF at the UC Davis campus. Matthew married his wife, Ruth, in August of 2005. Their younger son, Michael, began his freshman year at UC Davis in the fall of 2005. Louis enjoys most sports and is a fan of all the Bay Area sports teams.
Mrs. Kate Leong --- Southwest Chinese Baptist Church, Houston
Mrs. Kate Leong
- Workshop Speaker
- Instructor of "Veggie Sculpture Class", "Floral Arrangement Class", "Culinary Class"
- Instructor, International Cooking Class, Summer Arts Camp of University of Arkansas at Little Rock from 2005 to now
- Member at Large , Ethnic Committee Of Woman Missionary Union of Texas 1999---now
- Administrator, Christian Communications Inc. of USA 1991 - 2004
- Personnel manager, Christian Communications Ltd. Of Hong Kong 1971-1985
- Ethnic Consultant for Texas Baptist Woman Missionary Union. 200 - —2004
- Chairperson, Chinese Baptist Fellowship of USA & Canada Culinary Camp 2002,2003
- Chief Editor of"Chinese Our Mission World" of National Woman Missionary Union (Volunteer) ,more than 10 years.
- Ethnic Consultant ( Chinese ) for National Woman Missionary Union. 1989---1999
- President of Hong Kong woman Missionary Union 1983--1985
Rev. Peter Leong --- Southwest Chinese Baptist Church, Houston
Reverend Leong was born in Seremban, Malaysia. At age 15, he accepted Christ as his personal Savior. He was called by Jesus and dedicated his life to ministry when he was 16 years old. In 1970, he graduated from Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary. He has been serving as Senior Pastor of Southwest Chinese Baptist Church in Stafford, Texas since 1985. He is currently serving in the following organizations:
- Executive Board of Baptist General Convention of Texas 2005 till now
- President of Houston Baptist Ministerial Fellowship 2004 till now
- Executive member of Houston Asian Ministers against Crime 2006 till now
- Advisor of Christian Herald Crusaders Houston 2006 till now
- Speaker of Revival, Evangelistic services, Pastoral Conferences in Asia, North
America, Pacific area and Europe over 40 countries.
- Served as Senior Pastor of Tai Po Baptist Church, Hong Kong 1970-1985
- Professor of Church Administration at Hong Kong Baptist
Theological Seminary 1983-1984
- Acting Executive Secretary of Hong Kong Baptist Convention
Pastor Kyle Shimazaki --- Associate Outreach Pastor, Evergreen Church of San Gabriel Valley
Kyle Shimazaki was born again while studying at UCSB. After graduating, he attended Calvary Chapel Bible College where he received a degree in Biblical Studies. Kyle is the associate outreach pastor at Evergreen Church of San Gabriel Valley under Pastor Cory Ishida and the founder of Seeds of Life Ministries.
With his passion for Christ and an uncompromised approach to teaching the Word of God Kyle speaks throughout the body of Christ. He and his wife Carolyn along with their son Trent and daughter Faith reside in Monterey Park California. He enjoys spending time with his family, running, motorcycles, and a hot bowl of pho.
Michael and Jeannie Stinton have a fulltime ministry, The Treasure Chest as Gospel Magicianaries and are part-time staff as Education Directors at Kehilat Ariel Messianic Synagogue. The Treasure Chest is a ministry located in Santee, California, and has been ministering in San Diego County for more than 20 years. They have been in fulltime ministry for 10 years, after working in the secular field for many years and ministry on a part-time basis. What a joy to be able to serve the Lord in a full-time capacity! They have had the privilege of traveling and sharing the Gospel using illusions and sleight-of-hand in Mexico, Israel, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Peru and Hong Kong. They minister to the whole family as well as specialize in children's and youth ministries. God's Word is presented visually so that their audience not only hears the Word, but also sees visual applications and examples. It's Powerful!
> Michael and Jeannie celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in April. They have one daughter, one granddaughter and a grandson.